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7 THERMOGAUTER. No. 546,894. Patented Sept. 24, 1895.

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Qi ECIFICA'ITION forming part of Letters Patent No. 546,894, dated September 24, 1895.

Application filed May 13,1895.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN ELLwooD LEE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Oonshohocken, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cauterizing Apparatns,of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of an improved thermocauterizing appliance, and has especial reference to the means for securing the preliminary heating of the cauterizingpoint.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a thermocauterizing apparatus with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional view, drawn to an enlarged scale,'of the blowpipe-torch; and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same.

In Fig. 1 a cauterizing-point P is shown as carried by a carbureting-cylinder D, which at the same time serves as a handle, the air under pressure being introduced into the carbureting-chamber through an inlet-pipe E. At F, at the entrance end of the carburetor, is a three-way cock with a branch to which is connected a flexible pipe G, leading to the pipe C of the torch. A suitable clip K may be employed to hold the torch O in proper position with reference to the point of the cauterizer.

As will be seen on reference to Figs. 2 and 3, the torch consists, essentially, of a receptacle A, closed at the bottom a and open at the top a, and containing a coil of Wire-gauze or perforated metal or other suitable porous or foraminous material B, and leading into this receptacle A at a point below the foraminous material B there is the inlet-pipe Gfor Serial No. 549,049. (No model.)

admitting a supply of air under pressure to the receptacle.

The mass B, of wire-gauze or other suitable porous or foraminous material, is intended to receive a small quantity of alcohol or similar combustible liquid, which is poured or dropped onto the mass B through the open top a. If, then, a match is applied to the open end a of the receptacle, and if the cock F at the entrance end of the carburetor is turned to the position shown in the drawings, the air entering under pressure through E will pass through the flexible tube G and pipe O to the torch, giving a jet of flame of great intensity to play on the cauterizer and bring it to the desired heat. Then by turning the cock at F to another position the supply of air can be cut off from the torch and directed through the carburetor to the interior of the cauterizing-point P, as usual.

I claim as my invention- A cauterizing appliance having a carburetor and cauterizing point, in combination with a blow pipe torch adapted to be held adjacent to the point, and consisting of an open top receptacle of porous or foraminous material adapted to take up combustible liquid, an air-supply pipe leading into the receptacle below said material, anda cock on the air supply side of the carburetor to supply air to the pipe leading to the torch.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN ELL'WOOD LEE.

Witnesses:

O. L. MATHIAS, G. R. KLINE. 

